Poetry. Introduction by Michael Magee. GOD'S LIVESTOCK POLICY is Stan Apps' self-ordained "mini-Bible--sort of a commentary on the real Bible." Employing satire as incisive as that which one might find in e.e. cummings and The New Republic, Apps' poems problematize God, configuring the deity as a grasping extension of Man's urge for sovereignty, a populist construct by which we are roped, doped, and branded. Heaven here is a bureaucratic machine, earth a lamentable mistake, and humans the lowing livestock. GOD'S LIVESTOCK POLICY is published as part of the Trench Art Parapet series. With visual art by Danielle Adair.

Author Hometown: Los Angeles, CA USA



About the author: Stan Apps is a poet and essayist in Los Angeles. His books include Info Ration (Make Now), God's Livestock Policy (Les Figues), and Handbook of Poetic Language (Eohippus Labs). A big ol' book of essays is forthcoming from Combo Books. Stan's poems have appeared lately in Try!, WORK, Joyland, Abraham Lincoln, Shampoo, and in the e-chap Grover Fuel from Scantily Clad Press. Stan is an Acquarius and is most compatible with fire and/or other air signs; he enjoys science-fiction novels and discussing the U.S. Presidents and dogs with his son Leo (three-and-a-half).